546138
546138

A Gambler's Certain Death

1969-09-06 ja 93m
Crime
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.

Screenplay

Gorō Tanada

Director

Kiyoshi Saeki

Art Direction

Akira Ishihara

Director of Photography

Shigeru Akatsuka

Editor

Kozo Horiike

Original Music Composer

Masanobu Higurashi

任侠

Status

Released

Countries

  • Japan

Companies

  • Toei Company